ISF Forum

🔥 What if your next pitch changes everything? The stage is set. The opportunity is real. And $10,000 is up for grabs. 💰 The ISF Pitch Battle is calling founders, innovators, and ambitious entrepreneurs with ideas that deserve to be heard. This isn’t just about winning a prize. It’s about putting your business in the room with top-tier mentors, experienced facilitators, growth-focused masterclasses, and people who can help take your idea further. Got something worth building? Got a solution people need? Got a story worth putting on stage? Then it’s time to pitch. 🎤🚀 📌 Applications are OPEN ⏰ Deadline: 10 October 2026 🌐 Apply: www.theisfforum.com/pitch Your idea deserves a stage. Will you take it? #ISF2026 #ISFPitchBattle #InnovationAndScaleForum #Startups #Entrepreneurs #PitchBattle #BusinessGrowth #Innovation #AfricanEntrepreneurs #IbadanStartupFest

Most founders pitch foreign investors without knowing how those investors actually decide. Satoshi Shinada is on the other side of that table. He is a Partner and Co-founder of Verod-Kepple Africa Ventures, a $60 million pan-African fund, and a General Partner at Kepple Africa Ventures. He has been investing in African startups since 2019, bringing Japanese and international capital into companies across the continent. If you're building something that will need capital from beyond Nigeria, he's worth hearing. He joins us at ISF Forum 2026. Scale Without Borders 27–28 November · International Conference Centre, Ibadan Tickets: theisfforum.com #ISF2026 #ScaleWithoutBorders

How the world sees African business depends a lot on who tells the story. Victor Oluwole is Managing Director of Business Insider Africa and Pulse Africa, running newsrooms and commercial operations across Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya and Uganda. He sees every week which African companies break through, which ones get ignored, and why. He joins us at ISF Forum 2026. Scale Without Borders 27–28 November · International Conference Centre, Ibadan Tickets: theisfforum.com #ISF2026 #ScaleWithoutBorders

Fifteen passes. Two days. Full access. If you shoot, write, edit or podcast, the ISF media pass puts you inside the room for both days — on the floor, in the sessions, close to the founders, investors and policymakers everyone else will be watching from a distance. We are not looking for follower counts. We are looking for people who will make something worth watching out of what happens in that building. Fifteen slots. That is genuinely all there are. DM @innovationandscaleforum on Instagram to apply. Scale Without Borders 27–28 November · International Conference Centre, Ibadan theisfforum.com #ISF2026 #scalewithoutborders #Innovation #techhub

A product that wins in one market can disappear in the next. What worked in Lagos doesn't always land in Accra, Nairobi or Ibadan, and brands usually find that out after they've already spent the money. Gloria Nnanke Essien (MBA/HRM) is Co-Founder of SiSa Consults, where she helps brands reposition for African markets and take them over. Her work starts at the exact point this year's theme is about: when a business has to become something new to grow somewhere new. She joins us at ISF Forum 2026. Scale Without Borders 27–28 November · International Conference Centre, Ibadan Tickets: theisfforum.com #ISF2026 #ScaleWithoutBorders

14 billion transactions. That is what Moniepoint Group processed in a year, roughly triple its volume two years earlier, through a network built for the businesses Nigeria's traditional banking system reached last. The shop. The pharmacy. The workshop. The trader with one terminal and no branch anywhere nearby. That is also a fair description of who fills the room at ISF. We're glad to welcome Moniepoint as a partner of ISF Forum 2026. Scale Without Borders 27–28 November · International Conference Centre, Ibadan Register: theisfforum.com #ISF2026 #ScaleWithoutBorders

Some moments deserve more than applause—they deserve to be celebrated. ✨ An Evening of Prestige is where we honour excellence, spotlight impact, and bring Africa’s changemakers together for a night to remember. 🏆 Know someone making a difference? Nominate them before September 30th. 🔗 awards.theisfforum.com #ISF2026 #ISFAwards #InnovationAndScaleForum #AnEveningOfPrestige

20 countries. Over 1 billion users are reachable through local payment methods. That is the infrastructure David Nwosu represents in Nigeria. As Country Manager for EBANX, he leads the local operation of a global payments company built for markets where international cards simply do not work, covering Latin America, Africa and Asia. Selling into one country is a business. Getting paid by customers in five is a different problem, and it is where a lot of Nigerian companies quietly stall. He is an Honorary Senior Member of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria. He joins us at ISF Forum 2026. Scale Without Borders 27–28 November · International Conference Centre, Ibadan Tickets: theisfforum.com #ISF2026 #ScaleWithoutBorders

50 million digitally skilled Nigerians by 2027. That is the target NITDA Nigeria is working toward under Director-General Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi, CCIE, alongside Nigeria's trillion-dollar digital economy ambition. Policy decides what is possible before a founder writes a line of code. He is one of the people deciding it. He joins us at ISF Forum 2026. Scale Without Borders 27–28 November · International Conference Centre, Ibadan Tickets: theisfforum.com #ISF2026 #ScaleWithoutBorders

A great event that nobody can find is just a meeting. Getting the right people into a room is its own discipline, and it's the work Gevento does — a platform where people discover events worth their time and book a ticket in the same place, wherever in the world the event is happening. We're pleased to welcome Gevento as a sponsor of ISF Forum 2026. Scale Without Borders 27–28 November · International Conference Centre, Ibadan Register: theisfforum.com #ISF2026 #ScaleWithoutBorders